Alessandra Cappelletti

date of birth: 26.01.1976

place of birth: Orbetello (GR), Italy

place of residence: Via Giuseppe Peano 20, 00146 Rome

ph. 00393338391226

email: alessandra.cappelletti@gmail.com

Phd graduatein Eastern and Southern Asian Studies, and in Law with Specialization in Ethno-Sociology, with focus on Xinjiang contemporary socio-political development in the Kashgar and Shihezi areas. The research is based on the fieldwork in the Shihezi and Kashgar areas, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. From July 2010 to Oct. 2012 I studied and worked at Minzu University of China. Dissertation defence held on 9.04.2013.

Co-tutorship PhD joint project: Università degli Studi di Napoli – L'Orientale, Napoli, Italy

(with double PhD certificate) Central University for Nationalities, Beijing, PRC

Supervisors: Prof.ssa Maria Siddivo’ (Economy of Development), Napoli

Prof. Abduresit Jelil Qarluq (Sociology of Development), Beijing

members of the PhD defence commission:Prof. Marco Buttino – Università di Torino

Prof. Yang Shengmin - Central University for Nationalities, Beijing

Prof.ssa Ersilia Francesca - Università di Napoli "L'Orientale"

• Sociologist and consultant for the Sino-German Poverty Alleviation Program – Kashgar Prefecture, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

• Member of AISC, Italian Association of Chinese Studies

Studies

Postgraduate Course in Diplomatic and International Studies

University of Padua, International Studies Department

Sept. 2001-July 2002

Degree in Oriental Languages and Literatures – major Classical Chinese

University of Venice “Ca’ Foscari”

Dissertation: The concept of xing性in the waipianof Zhuangzi

Tutor: Prof. Maurizio Scarpari

Sept. 1995-June 2001

One year Course of Chinese Language and Culture (Scholarship of the Chinese Government)

Beijing Shifan Daxue (Beijing Normal University), Beijing, People’s Republic of China

Sept. 1999-March 2000

Erasmus Project, 12 months

Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Classical Chinese language and History of Eastern Asia

Tutors: Prof. Carine Defoort and prof. Nicolas Standaert

Sept. 1997-Sept.1998

TOChina Summer School in the politics, IR and IPE of contemporary China

Turin University, Faculty of Political Sciences

Tutor: Prof. Giovanni Andornino

June-July 2008

Course of French language and Literature (Scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)

Université Libre Bruxelles, Belgium

August 2002

Course of Greek language and culture

Aristotelous University of Thessaloniki - School of Modern Greek

Thessaloniki, Greece

Oct. 2002-July 2003

VI Multidisciplinary University Course of Education to Development. “The fragmented planet. Globalization and cultures: the limits of diversity and the possible solutions for coexistence”

“Ca’ Foscari” University of Venice, UNICEF Veneto, Province of Venice, Academic Year 2000 – 2001

Course of High Culture “Year zero, degree zero” - organized by Carlo Ossola and Vittore Branca) – scholarship

Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice

July 2001

Professional Experience

Consultant for sociological and legal matters for the Land Allocation Monitoring Mission – Sino-German Poverty Alleviation Program, Kashgar, Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region

for Kfw Investment Bank, Frankfurt, Financing Agency of the Project, together with the Chinese Ministry of Finance

Responsible: Mr. Abduresit Jelil Qarluq – Head of the monitoring mission

First mission: 20 Aug – 20 Sept 2011

Second Mission: 20 Aug – 7 Sept 2012

KfW Entwicklungsbank

Natural Resource Management Division

Asia L3c/4

Palmengartenstr. 5-9

60325 Frankfurt a.M.

Germany

Italian trainer for corporate clients

for Oxford CenteRiver Training & Education Group

Responsible: Ms. Michelle Li – project manager

14 Nov. - on going

Oxford CenteRiver Training & Education Group, UK

CenteRiver Training Consultancy, China

Direct Line: 010 6563 9954

Fax: 010 6563 9833

www.oxfordcenteriver-training.com

Support staff to the General Manager

for investment bank operating in Africa, Middle East, Saudi Arabia and Central Asia

Responsible: Biagio Matranga – General Manager

26/06/06-05/2007

BANCA UBAE SpA

Via Quintino Sella, 2

00187 Roma

www.bancaubae.it

Asia-Pacific Commercial Office

for a company producing machineries for credit cards embossment and personalisation.

Responsible: Sun Wen Wei, Asia-Pacific commercial manager

21/04/2005-01/06/2006

MF Group Spa

Via Serra 2

Lippo di Calderara di Reno (BO) www.cimitaly.it

Marketing and Press Office

for NGO working in Tibet

01/11/2004 – 31/03/2005

Responsible: Andrea Dell’Angelo, Director.

Asia Onlus

Via San Martino della Battaglia 31, Roma

06 44340034

www.asia-onlus.org

International clients support division

in International law firm operating incorporate, merger and acquisition,finance services.

15/10/2003 – 31/10/2004

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

P.zza Montecitorio 115, 00186 Roma

Uffici centrali: London, EC4Y 1HS, 65 Fleet Street www.freshfields.com

General Manager staff

in Italian Chamber of Commerce.

15/10/2002 – 15/09/2003

responsible: Costanzo Raimondo – General Manager

Camera di Commercio italo-ellenica di Salonicco

Kon. Karamanli 47

54644 Thessaloniki, Grecia

www.italchamber.gr

I was occasionaly engaged in Italian teaching, interpreting and translating jobs.

Italian

native speaker

English

Fluent written and oral

French

Good written and oral

Modern Greek

Fluent written and oral

Chinese

Fluent written and oral

Uyghur

Basic

Presentations

"Dissidenti e minoranze, mine vaganti per il sistema"

(Dissidents and Minorities: Loose Cannons for the System”

Corso di Geopolitica sulla Cina

Circolo Vie Nuove - Firenze

Direttore: Prof. Gian Paolo Calchi Novati

Lunedì 25 marzo 2013

“Popolazioni e leadership locali nel Xinjiang di epoca Qing – amministrazione e controllo dell’area prima e dopo il 1759”

(Populations and Local Leadership in Qing Xinjiang – administration and control of the area before and after 1759)

Convegno di Studi: Le minoranze linguistico-religiose nella Cina Ming-Qing

La Sapienza – Dipartimento Istituto Studi Orientali / ISO

Coordinamento: Prof. Paolo Santangelo

Giovedì 7 marzo 2013

“Categorie etniche e ricerca sul campo in Cina. Quando, come e perché usare, o non usare, la prospettiva etnica. Il caso del Xinjiang”

(Ethnic Categories and Fieldwork in China. When, how and why to use, or not to use, the ethnic perspective. The Xinjiang case)

National AISC (Associazione Italiana di Studi Cinesi) Seminar – Research seminar

Perugia, PG, Italy

6-7 ottobre 2012

“L'immigrazione Han nel Xinjiang dal 1949 a oggi”

(Han Migration to Xinjiang since 1949)

National ASIAC (Associazione per gli Studi in Italia dell'Asia Centrale) Conference

Levico Terme, TN, Italy

10-12 dicembre 2009

Forthcoming:

"Tuntian e Corpi di Produzione e Costruzione del Xinjiang: continuità oppure rottura storica?"

(Tuntian and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps: continuity or historical breach?)

Convegno di Studi Ming-Qing Studies 2012

Università degli Studi di Macerata

Coordinamento: Prof. Paolo Santangelo

Martedì 30 aprile 2013

“Land acquisition” in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: the effects on land properties and on the floating population

The 11th biennial Conference of the Nordic Association for China Studies (NACS)

“Responsible China”

University of Turku, 11.-14th of June 2013.

Commissions (forthcoming)

Foreign expert at the Commission for the evaluation of the research projects written by the students of the Minor in Area and Cultural Studies – College of Humanities – Centre for Area and Cultural Studies (CACS)

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

22 May 2013

Publications

“La stabilizzazione del Far West Cinese: il caso del Xinjiang”, in Mondo Cinese No. 147 (“Gli altri cinesi”), Dicembre 2011, anno XXXIX, No. 3, pp.26-52, Francesco Brioschi Editore, Milano

(The stabilisation of the Chinese Far West: the Xinjiang case”

“Study on the Development of the Tuntian System in Northern Xinjiang during the Qing Dynasty”, co-author with Zhang Anfu, in pubblicazione in Ming Qing STUDIES 2012, Aracne Editore, Roma

“Note on the Mongolian Landscape Map - Exhibition at Terme di Diocleziano, Rome”, in pubblicazione in Ming Qing STUDIES 2012, Aracne Editore, Roma

“China's Ethnic Fringe”, in Longitude – The Italian Monthly on World Affairs, No. 20, October 2012 (rivista finanziata e promossa dal MAE), Koinè Nuove Edizioni, Milano

“Kashgar moves on”, in Longitude – The Italian Monthly on World Affairs, No. 14, March 2012 (rivista finanziata e promossa dal MAE), Koinè Nuove Edizioni, Milano

Collaboratrice per “Gli scioperi operai che piegano Deng”, di Michelangelo Cocco, Ilmanifesto, martedì 3 gennaio 2012

(The workers' strikes challenging Deng)

“A Est Shenzhen, a Ovest Kashgar”, in EAST 43 (Luglio 2012), Bandalarga Editore, Roma, pp. 34-39.

Co-author, with Prof. Abduresit Jelil Qarluq, for the chapter on Uyghur ethnicity in the encyclpedic work in 60 volumes《中国各民族》"Peoples of China", joint projecto Minzu University of China, Ethnic Minority Study Center of China (EMSCOC) and Shanghai Yilin Press (11 pagine)

Translation of Ch. 2 “Maps of the Western regions of the Yuan and Ming dinasty” of the book 蒙古山水地图 (The Mongolian Landscape Map) by the Chinese archeaologist Lin Meicun, published by 文物出版社(Cultural Heritage Publishing Press), from Ming-Qing classical and not-simplified Chinese into English, pp. 49-63. Project coordinator: Prof. Giuseppe Vignato, Associate in Archeaology at Beijing University

“Gli Uiguri del Xinjiang: processi politici e dissenso tra Cina e Asia Centrale”, in ISPI Analysis, no. 9, April 2010, pp.1-8, Milan (http://www.ispionline.it/it/documents/Analysis_9_2010.pdf)

(Uyghurs in Xinjiang: political processes and dissent between China and Central Asia)

“Dossier China – The Long Conquest”, in Missioni Consolata, January 2010, pp. 25-44, Torino. In the same monthly and in La Nuova Ecologia were published my reports and dossiers from China and Turkey

“Xinjiang as a kaleidoscope of cultures – Uyghurs and Han: power relations and wish of development”, in East no. 27, 2009, pp. 88-95, Milan.

Contributor for the Dazhalan Project with articles on the Dazhalan district in Beijing and the Sulukule area in Istanbul (http://www.dazhalan-project.org), published in Urban China, no. 26, 2008 Beijing

“La mamma è una sovversiva”, essay on the Chinese dissident Mao Hengfeng, in Donne per un altro mondo, di Angela Lano e Paolo Moiola, Gabrielli Editore, Giugno 2008, Verona.

(My mother is a dissident)

Essay on the Chinese artist Huang Rui in the catalogue of the contemporary art exhibition Beijing 2008: Animal Time in Chinese History – an artwork by Huang Rui, Gangemi Editore, February 2008, Rome. The exhibition is held at Museo delle Mura di Porta San Sebastiano and Galleria Sala 1, 9^th February – 8^th June 2008, Rome.

“Le imprese greche e il mercato italiano nell’ambito del processo di internazionalizzazione – Un’analisi dei rapporti economico-commerciali tra imprese greche e Italia nello scenario imprenditoriale delle Fiere Internazionali di Salonicco del 2002” (The Greek Enterprises and the Italian Market in the Framework of the Internationalisation Process – An Analysis of the Economic-Commercial Relations between Greek Enterprises and Italy in the Context of the International Fairs of Thessaloniki during the Year 2002), Magazine of the Hellenic-Italian Chamber of Commerce Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, May 2003.

Research and analysis on the ICT market in Greece for ASSOCAMERESTERO (Association of the Italian Chambers of Commerce Abroad), via Morgagni, Rome.